The first beer with Mezcal worldwide

We are PULQ

We are a young enterprise with a special mission: The coalescence of our famous heritage-Classic German Craft Beer with Genuine Mexican Mezcal, the mysterious legacy of native, zapotec, indigenous people. Dare to try it!

Pulq beer with Mezcal

Pulq Effects

Consumers first reaction:

“This is a devil’s stuff!“

“PULQ has triggered a change in my perspective from life. I feel freer and closer to my inner being.“

It’s an amazing surprise! One is not prepared for what comes next, after a few gulps.“

„I usually don’t drink beer…“

Don’t worry, PULQ is a perfectly legal drink with an alcohol content of 10.5% vol. Alc. And also contains only the raw materials that are specified here. How come people end up telling things like that?

NOBODY KNOWS…

Pulq 10.5% Alk.

Content of alcohol: 10,5 % Vol.

Beer: German craft beer, Traditional Brew

Mezcal: Los Javis Joven Espadin

Aroma: Malty, Light-smoked, clear agave

Color: Gold/Blond

Aktuelle Serie: Tecolotl ce

PULQ – a combination of precious basic ingredients. A symbiotic relationship between our truly authentic German Craft Beer with the mysterious and autonomous Mexican Genuine Mezcal.

An harmony that combines the honest, experimental and independent Mezcal with the benevolent, loyal and genuine beer.

Mythology and origins. Reality and effects.

WHAT iS PULQ!!

Shortly said

Pulque had an high importance in the spiritual life of the Aztec people, as an intoxicant sacrificial offer at public ceremonies and festivities . The mythic origin of Pulque is part of the ancient Aztec world...

Malt, Hop, Water..

Beer Fermentation

The raw material

The Beer

The Agave

Mezcal

sustainability

That´s PULQ!

Shortly said

PULQ is not only a simple kind of a beer! PULQ is not only a genuine mezcal. PULQ is much more than a sum of its single components. PULQ is free of any preservatives and tells us a mysterious addicting story by its unique aroma and taste.
PULQ is not flavoured, it is not a “wanna be”, it´s no fake. It is just a “promise of delight”, extraordinary experience into the world of high class alcoholic drinks.

Everything that makes life worth living,

crosses borders!

Who is PULQ?

Javier Mateo

Destilleria Los Javis

Jiannis Panagou

Topography: Interaction between flavor and effect.Field: Follow culinary globalization waves. Mezcal as a trigger and raw material.Aim: Flavor transformation without loss of identity. Coexistence.Characteristic: The language of the ideas. Spoken and written.

In the sixties his parents emigrate to Germany were he was born. His mother language is German. In 1973 he returns to Greece, forgets the German language completely and learns Greek.

With 6 years old he hears that the mountains that surround his new home, are inhabited by Cloud’s People. He picks up a stick and makes his way to find them. The search patrol found him two days later – exhausted, but with a strange grin.

In 1988 he leaves Greece again to Germany.

There he meets the German language for the second time. In Germany, he learns from the Cloud’s People Valey in Mexico and makes himself on the way there. Passing by San Cristobal de las Casas ends up unintentionally in the tumultuous events of the city. The Valley of the Cloud’s People is within reach. He gets there 5 days later, walking most of the way. The first drops of mezcal reveal themselves: The Cloud’s People are for real! He is exhausted but with a strange grin in his face.

He keeps going back to Mexico since then. In May 1994 he founded the Mexican Restaurant, one of the first Mexican restaurants in Germany, and follows other gastronomic projects in the same direction. In 2007 he makes his pilots license. Now he has the Cloud’s People always within reach. And as Buddha said: “When the student is ready, the master appears.”…

Anke Hipler emerges. German organization meets greek constructive chaos and human kind will benefit – with a strange grin in his face.
Anke begins to work in the Mexican. She will be also confronted with the legend of Cloud’s People … and they make themselves together on the way to discover Mexico’s culinary: Mexico City, Chihuahua, Yucatan, Jalisco Copper Canyon, indigenous population. The Rarámuris and the Huichol are put under the microscope and broken down into their substances. The same topography was researched by Dr. Hoffmann 60 years before. The culinary secrets of Mexico are revealed.

Strange fires and drinks of pre-Columbian cultures are explored, rare and strange cooking ingredients and species are discovered. The Odyssey takes place in the deserts of Baja California, Oaxaca, in the restaurant Los Danzantes, meeting Lila Downs … – exhausted but with a strange grin in their faces. Caught in the exopragmatic world of Mezcal, Oaxaca is broken down into its substance. Many Mezcals later, the revelation: PULQ. Beer brewed Pilsner style, enriched with Mezcal. His name: PULQ.

Anke Hipler

Topography:Provide fundamental equipment to ensure the castle not to fall apart.Field:Intercultural adaption.Aim: Controlling of everything and everyone, combined with warmth.

The girl next door …
Born in 1979 in Düsseldorf. The family moved into contemplative Bruggen, a village next to the Netherlands border. Growing up protected and surrounded with love, has lively achieved to complete her graduation and launch her own life on her own way. This urge had followed her since early years and had her decided to move out of the parental house already with the age of six. She grabbed her backpack and left… However, two hours later she was back to the doorstep, because life appeared to be too boring and lonely without the loved ones. Surrounded by a cloud of satisfaction.

It has ever been clear to herself that she would just stand behind whatever fulfilled her inner wishes and believes.

So she worked for four years in family care and six years in a residential care for teenagers and young homeless people, a short time in the juvenile court, six years in discotheques and in traditional catering. In her early youth years she also worked two years in an amusement park.

Always surrounded by a cloud of satisfaction.

Until one day it became clear that something new was about to urge.

The way led her into the Mexican Restaurant. The somewhat different cuisine with that special something. Yes, that was the new challenge she needed.

Pretty soon it became clear that her and her boss had formed an almost perfect symbiosis. The emotional side of Jiannis Panagou, coupled with the overview skills of Anke, turned out to be a brilliant result of collegial cooperation.
Surrounded by a special cloud of satisfaction.

Then came the way to Mexico.

Being in Mexico is something very special, but being in Mexico with Jiannis, it is a virus that roots deep inside irretrievably. One dives without preoccupations into the life of the Mexicans, to situations and circumstances that are so incredible that one’s mind get freed from previous disbelieve. Suddenly one believes and is aware of the real existence of deeper prior unseen interconnections.

And every drop of Mezcal, whether drunk in Mexico, Germany or elsewhere in the world, binds together the Mexico’s melancholy with a primordial vitality and glee.

It is a very special contentment that only a few people experience and the fearful yearn.

Our Partners

Göller Brewery

Destilleria Los Javis

The way to Oaxaca is long and not only in terms of its topography. It is a long trip into the deppest corners of your inner self. 600km and aeons away from Mexico City, there where you are the hunter and the prey at the same time. The hunter that follows the traces of taste and the prey that trembling tries to escape the labyrinth of its senses of flavor. A deep duality.
One arrives there as an hunter to leave Oaxaca as a prey. Behind the journey, an odyssey.

Oaxaca is considered the center of Mezcal culture. First and foremost: Santiago Matatlan, which is considered the center of mezcal production.
You must turn right on the path that leads to Chiapas. The road is a kind of fresco by Diego Rivera: Whimsical colors, mythical figures. And the sky, nothing but the horizon, which appears like a bridge between you and eternity. First, on the left side, you’ll meet the family Mora, that distillates the Mezcal Cruz de Milagro (Cross of Miracles) since ever. You should be rather cautious when you get there or you’re expected to meet the same faith as Odysseus at Kalypso. Each drop deepens a wound in your memories. Painful, exhilarating … soothing somehow.
The smell of alcohol fills the air. Burning fires everywhere roasting the hearts of the agave. The dogs of the city live their dream. The alcohol in the air makes them lazy and lethargic and they sleep throughout the day. Cerberus abandoned Hades here.
We are looking for Los Javis’, a Mezcaleria, that has been distilling noble drops out of the hearts of the agave Espadin for 3 generations. We wanted to find it and taste it and interpret it with our Western mind. Yes, Mezcal is a prey lurking on their hunters. A siren on your palate. Nude dancing. Its mocks the shooting of your arrows. It escorts the wind and shows it its tongue.
Through your veins flows the crystal clear blood of the agave. Do you dare to taste it?
Is this the secret potion of Circe? Will I ever be allowed to leave this island?
You have to kiss it. Each great love or betrayal begins with a little kiss. It is like the kiss of your first love. The Kiss your mother. You relax your bow, your arrows fall to the ground. You close your eyes and you can go down the same path all over again. You are in Ithaca – now you know.
The agave’s blood calls its unconditional tribute. Memories. Everything is quiet. The Earth rotates more slowly. Where do you know this feeling from? Or is this no feeling at all? A mirage, perhaps? Our hearts beat in reverse to go back all the way around. But you never come back from this journey. It continues.
Yes, we will take it home and keep it forever. We will take it home as a gift from the island of the Cyclops. It is a long journey and each centimeter an onus.
Mexico’s latest Mezcal. For you. And withal for us. Go down on your knees and pray! Perhaps it talks to you too.

Eva Distillery

Ε.V.Α.The GREEK DISTILLATION COMPANY SA or “EVA” is the operative basis of all products mentioned above, identical with the very culture of the island. “EVA” is the abbreviation of the word eviva, the known “cheers”, which indicates the warm movement and the clinking sound of the glasses through which the horizons of human relationships open, the uniqueness of the moment, life itself.

The company which is considered by the locals as one big family and was founded in 1995 making it one more successful attempt to the already established and diverse business achievements by the Patrikopoulos Brothers. The grandfather of the founders originated from Pergamon in Asia Minor, leaving to the next generations a great heritage, distillation secrets, passion and traditional ouzo recipes. The establishment of “EVA” followed the hitherto 26 year entrepreneurial activity in the food and drinks sector.